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The post leading photojournalist magazine Picture Post, he removed everything from the military reports and the weddings of British monarchs to the races “Tour de France”. But the most interesting and memorable of his post-war photographs, which imprinted the spontaneity and fullness of feeling, the unimaginable romance and social justice. Being the genius disclosure of the characters, he portrayed the people as the characters. The aesthetics of works by Bert hardy lets call it Dickens with a camera, reports the Chronicle.info with reference on the art of Photography.

“It never seemed to work. Photography was always good fun”, said hardy. He artfully filmed their heroes. Created unforgettable scenes of the girl in the window in Birmingham; photographed the inhabitants of the slums of Glasgow (one of those pictures became his favourite); the life of London “Elephant and castle”; unemployment in Northern Ireland; dancers in Blackpool; poor people in Cardiff and Liverpool; of countless ‘ordinary’ British people at work and leisure.

The full name of this cult documentary and street photographer albert William Thomas hardy. He was born in 1913. Growing up the eldest of seven children in a modest working class family in Southwark, London. He told me that the photographer was an accident. At the age of 14 left school and applied for a job at a local garage, but he refused, because hardy was unable to multiply in the mind 13×13. Responding to another ad, he got a job at a chemist and started to ride the bike collecting films which showed his boss. Later hardy and taught himself to process and print photos. His first “bestseller” was the passing in the carriage of king George V with Mary of Tekskom. Managed to sell 200 small prints depicting monarchs. And becoming a freelancer in the journal of The Bicycle, hardy was able to afford my first Leica.

Hardy was self-taught, but very soon became the chief photographer for Picture Post, the British equivalent of Life magazine, just after the appearance of his first work, devoted to extinguishing fires during the bombing of London. In 1942-1946 he served as a war photographer, was filming the landing in Normandy in June 1944; covered the liberation of Paris; the allies crossing the Rhine; was one of the first photographers who entered into the liberated concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen. At the end of world war II, hardy went to Asia, where he worked as a personal photographer of Lord Mountbatten, and later covered the Korean war.

His photographs were published in Picture Post before the closing edition in 1957. After the dissolution of the magazine hardy successfully worked in advertising, and then retired in 1964. Bought a small farm in Oxted, Surrey, where he lived with his wife Sheila at the age of 82. Died there in 1995.

In the area Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland, 1948.

After the war, began a period during which Bert hardy made his most memorable work, taking in Liverpool, Tiger Bay girls by the sea and district Gorbals. One of his most famous shots and, as argued by hardy, favorite was a street portrait of two boys in Gorbals, the area of Glasgow known for slums and poverty. In this shot embodies the perfected skill of a documentarian. The life of the working-class suburbs of London was occupied by the photographer throughout his career. He was shooting with empathy and sensitivity, but without sentimentality.

“Such as it is, a million.” Birmingham, 1951.

British sailors came to the shore of Gibraltar, came to the bar “Suiza”, to watch the performance of the Spanish dancer.

Liverpool hostel, 1942.

South London, 1949.

A lady with an armful of daffodils at Covent garden market, London, 1950.

“Barrel of joy”, 1946. Brewery workers throwing wood chips and his friend, who sits in a barrel. So celebrate the transition from student to professional Cooper.

Dominoes in South London, 1949.

Dice game for money. London wasteland, 1954.

Wife waving in the trail athenauem military train, 1940s.

Children run behind the priest of the local Anglican Church. East End 1940s.

Helen Bush, whose mother does not approve of evacuation of children, helps the pastor to save clothes from a bombed house in East end, London.

Londonderry, Northern Ireland, 1955.

“Elephant and castle”. The London borough of Southwark, 1949.

“London pool”. A tugboat sails on the Thames, 1949.

London, 1949.

“Laughter”. In the music hall in Islington, London.

“Beer and oats.” At a pub in London, December 1949.

Parking near city hall, Cardiff, January 1954.

Buses and trams in the Ranelagh street, Liverpool, March 1957.

Italian immigrants in Bedfordshire, 1955.

The Italian party, Positano, 1949.

18-year-old student from London mercy of Hasted eats a plate of spaghetti in Positano, Italy, 1949.

Dance in the bar, UK, 1949.

In a pub in Stepney district, London, 1949.

The game of snooker on Leman street in London, 1949.

Cleaning up after the work shift to relax in a pub on Whitehall, London, 1951.

Bar for color in cable street, Stepney, 1949.

The rain in Monte Carlo, 1955.

“Elegant ankle”. Cafe terrace on the Champs-Elysees, Paris, 1951.

Café “Culture”, Paris, June 1951. From the series “Sunday morning on the Champs Elysees”.

“Sunday morning on the Champs Elysees”, 1951.

“More wine”. Cafes in Le Mans, France, July 1955.

A waitress serves coffee to a married couple in Le Mans, France, 1955.

“Tea in the sea.” Passengers on deck of liner “Queen Elizabeth”, 1948.

The famous “Bluebell Girls” from Paris, 1955.

Accordion on the table waiting, when it will begin to play. Alexandra Palace, London, 1948.

Daring dance act at a French nightclub, 1952.

“Sailing”. Yacht “Nyachilwa” sailing in a regatta on the river Clyde, July 17, 1954.

The five British models to go with yacht “Bonaventure” on the beach in Cannes during a cruise on the Cote d’azur, 1955.

Five British models rest on a yacht off the côte d’azur, 1955.

British models eating lunch on a yacht off the côte d’azur, 1955.

American professional boxer sugar ray Robinson, 1951.

Cyclists at the start in the beginning of the race “Tour de France” in 1951, when he beat Hugo Coble from Switzerland.

Star Cycling George Break from Crystal Palace Club is trying to straighten the wheel during the race, London, 1948.

Mobile repair shop full of spare parts, during the “Tour de France”, 1951.

Mechanics inspect the motorcycles that will participate in races on the Isle of man, 24 June 1950.

Audrey Hepburn on the set of the musical Comedy “Funny face”, 1956.

Audrey Hepburn on the set of the musical Comedy “Funny face”, 1956.

Audrey Hepburn on the set of the romantic Comedy, Billy Wilder’s “Sabrina”.

Bouncing Audrey Hepburn with the dog in Richmond Park, 1950.

Audrey Hepburn in the Royal Botanic gardens, 1950.

Audrey Hepburn.

Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire on the set of the film “Funny face”, 1957.

Audrey Hepburn in the Royal Botanic gardens, 1950.

British filmmaker Carol reed in a setting where most of the filming of his movie “the Fallen idol”, 1948.

“The lesson of gait”. Mae McDowell teaches a model how to walk. Model school in Manchester, 1954.

In the ballroom of the Astoria in Nottingham, 1952.

“Leave…” a Café in Kensington.

Brokers at work on the Manchester stock exchange, 1954.

Readers in the library gentleman’s club in London, 1943.

“Hidden fan”, 1949. The chef of the hotel, watching from behind the screen like Marlene Dietrich gives a press conference at the Savoy while in London filming the Alfred Hitchcock film “stage fright”.

The bellboy walks two dogs belonging to a guest at the Grand hotel, Torquay, 1947.

“Fast horse, quickly stuck”, may 14, 1949.

The pied Piper Jim forti and Alf Grinvin at the station South Tottenham, London, with their dogs and ferrets in cages, September 1941.

Panda Ming photographs of Bert hardy’s son, Mike, 1939.

The entertainment of the crowd of children in Hexham, Northumberland, 1950.

The corner store in Barcelona, Spain, 1951.

“The French economy”. A young French woman with a large loaf of bread reads an announcement about a possible decline in prices for bakery products. 1952.

A puppeteer peeks out from your mobile theater. Liverpool, 1955.

“The young audience”. Children look at the theme on Sandwich street, London, 1945.

The boy tries to see the wedding procession of Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II).

“Royal photographer”. A woman broke through the police cordon to photograph the wedding of Elizabeth II. London, 1947.

Royal wedding. Elizabeth II, London, 1947.

Queen Elizabeth II at the Paris Opera during the state visit to the French capital on 20 April 1957.

In Tyneside, 1950.

“A ride in the carriage”. London, 1941.

With an Apple and a gun, approx. 1950.

Boy in a tin hat with friends near the store in Liverpool.

Near the cinema on Regent street in London has gathered a queue of people wanting to watch a movie by the British Director David lean’s “the Sound barrier” with Ann Todd and Ralph Richardson in the lead roles.

The Shoe-shiners working on street in Barcelona, Spain, 1951.

Beauties Of Leicester, 1948.

“Too many idlers”, 1954.

Women learn the assortment of buttons in the shop in Piccadilly, London, 1953.

The Grand hotel, Torquay, 1947.

Glasgow, Scotland, 1954.

Children at home in a slum area Gorbals, Glasgow, 1948.

1948.

Leapfrog cemetery, Glasgow, 1948.

Cardiff, 1950.

Slum district Gorbals, Glasgow, 1939.

The boy with the ball. Gorbals, Glasgow, 1948.

Glasgow, 1940s.

The slum area of Glasgow, 1948.

The Slums Of The East End, 1949.

The teacher with the younger generation, 1956.

Back yard, Chelsea, 1952.

“Barcelona is a city pheromones”. Two prostitutes talking to a client on the street in Barcelona, 1951.